Trouble began for the farmers when a group of herdsmen led their cattle into the farm and began destroying farm produce.

“By the time they asked the cattle-breeds what informed their illegal action, the next thing was physical assault using dangerous weapons which resulted to their untimely deaths,” a witness, Baba Abdul, said.

He alleged that a policeman who was living close to the farm “rushed to offer help but was also killed by the herdsmen.”

Residents, however, said the farmers sent a distress call to Agro-Rangers unit of the Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps,NSCDC, Adamawa State command.

The NSCDC team, who arrived the scene, were allegedly attacked with poisonous arrows by the herdsmen.